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Howard County will soon be home to two medical marijuana dispensaries, as the state's first licensed dispensary locations begin to open their doors. Remedy Columbia and Greenhouse Wellness in Ellicott City are set to open in the coming weeks to bring residents some of Maryland's first legal...

A medical marijuana distribution and transportation company proposed for a new district in the city took a big step forward after the Planning Commission voted unanimously to grant it a necessary permit, the second business to receive one in as many weeks. The conditional use permit allows...

The vast majority of doctors said they would prescribe medical marijuana to children with cancer but those who are certified to provide it are more reluctant to do so, a new study found. The survey showed that 92 percent of healthcare professionals were willing to help children with cancer...

Medical marijuana is now available in Maryland, more than four years after the General Assembly passed a law legalizing it. Standing up the industry – with growers, processors, dispensaries and doctors – took longer than expected. The law needed to be tweaked, rules to needed to written and...

An act to amend the Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act of 2015 will be discussed in Parliament today, and could determine the future of medical cannabis in Malta. The bill, which will be undergoing its second reading in a plenary session in Parliament this evening, clarifies what...

We've noticed some debate in Hawaii and elsewhere over whether medical marijuana users may be allowed to own firearms. In short, the answer is unclear – and Ohio, with its budding medical marijuana law, is no different. On the federal level, marijuana remains an illegal Schedule-I narcotic...

Medical marijuana was legalized in New York State in 2016. But LIBN readers haven't yet seen the program flourish in their personal experiences. That's according to a recent informal poll on libn.com. In response to the question, "Do you know someone who has purchased medical marijuana in New...

In-state harvesting of medical marijuana enjoys solid support among Georgia Republican voters, according to a poll released Monday by Rep. Allen Peake, the state Legislature's strongest backer of medical marijuana. The telephone poll of 511 likely Republican primary voters by the Tarrance...

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is pairing with an Australian biopharmaceutical company in what some advocates say could be the first major effort in the United States to study the effects of medical marijuana on children with autism. Athena Zuppa, the director of the hospital's Center...

Patient enrollment in New Mexico's medical cannabis program reached 45,347 as of Nov. 30, a 77 percent increase and a 19,650 net patient gain over the same period last year. On an annual basis, this is the highest percentage gain and the greatest net patient increase since the inception of the...

"If neither of you will provide the advice needed to properly inform doctors of their rights — and if no compelling reason can be made to me to the contrary by Legislative Counsel — I am determined to inform doctors of their rights myself." — Sen. Dennis Rodriguez to Guam's Attorney General and...

Pensacola's second medical cannabis dispensary will have its grand opening this week. At 10:30 a.m. Monday, Surterra Wellness will celebrate the opening of its new Pensacola Wellness Center, located at 5046 Bayou Blvd., according to a news release from the company. The business offers various...

An overwhelming majority of health care professionals who care for children with cancer would be willing to help those children get medical marijuana–though less enthusiastically if they happen to be among the providers who are actually eligible to provide it, found a new study. In a survey...

A ceremonial groundbreaking is set to happen Thursday on one of two medical marijuana cultivation facilities to be built in the Miami Valley. Cresco Labs Ohio LLC and officials with the village of Yellow Springs will be on hand at the site off East Enon Road near Antioch University, where a...

Three companies are applying for medical marijuana dispensaries in Cincinnati's Columbia Township. Administrator Mike Lemon says the clinics project they could do as much as $50 million in business in three to five years, significantly contributing to the economy. The Columbia Township Board...

Shawn Molsberry moseyed past the Emerald Mountain Seeds booth at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds Saturday and was offered a complimentary hit of concentrated cannabis. The 26-year-old Petaluma resident obliged and inhaled deeply on a glass device known as a dab rig, then exhaled a funnel cloud...

Some of the team behind the failed effort to legalize marijuana for recreational and medical use in Ohio in 2015 are going back to voters again next year. Jimmy Gould, a backer of the 2015 statewide ballot issue, is expected to announce Monday that he and others are backing the "Free Market...

Town meeting representatives next month will consider changing where medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed in Lee. The bylaw amendment would allow medical dispensaries in three of the municipality's eight zoning districts: rural business, industrial and Office Park and Light Industrial...

A cloud is looming over Ohio and every other state with a medical marijuana system. A little-known federal budget amendment that protects growers, processors, sellers and the professionals who work with them might expire this year at the behest of the Trump administration. Now known as the...

A Johnstown marijuana business narrowly missed being selected by the state of Ohio to run a marijuana farm to grow medical marijuana. Apeks Supercritical, which manufactures equipment used in the medical marijuana industry, was one of the investors in Ohio Grown Therapies LLC. Ohio Grown...